Benchmark Almanac

COPA

Dropped

Models choose which of two alternatives is the more plausible cause or effect of a premise, across 1,000 questions. Scored by accuracy.

Saturated. Also part of SuperGLUE.

Released
March 2011
Kind
Commonsense
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
PaLM 2-L #195 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
May 2023, dropped after it saturated
Last model added
May 2023
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

PaLM 2-L leads with 96%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 PaLM 2-L 96%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 PaLM 2-L 96% May 2023 Lab model card

Its lab’s own number for PaLM 2-L passed 85% in May 2023

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) PaLM 2-L 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2023 Near the ceiling (85%) PaLM 2-L

Source: Labs’ model cards

Labs dropped it from launch posts once the best score passed 85%

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Google DeepMind
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
May 10, 2023 PaLM 2-L 96 COPA, 1-shot

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